What a Famished World!
Childhood deserted, souls tattered, the world in doom. When a
thoughtful action could have saved, if a heart sensed the wrong, if a voice was
loud enough to be heard that stopped and crushed the Demonic Impostor.
“Shut your eyes and feel me in pain”,
A
voiceless scream kept reverberating in my ears. A couple of minutes ago, my
eyes were running over the plaques, grasping breathlessly, what had been
written on them, a tale of assault, people's sufferings. Deep in water, as the messenger, bridging time, they pleaded
for mercy. Their charred scars appealed to sense the pain and cause no more
such wounds,which could not be healed. A heart wrenching pang broke out, shattering my
belief that, ‘People always
stand for other people’. My soul wrenched inside and the tempest came
unwarranted, crumbling every attribute that defined ‘humanity’. It became unbearable to stand there
remembering, what had happened at the site seventy three years ago. My eyes
felt heavy and the eyelids dropped, shutting the sight.
Seiko Kamatsu, atomic bomb
survivor had been telling children playing games on computer, if they pushed a
button mistakenly; they might cause a nuclear fire. Then they would experience’
Nuclear Winter’, like he had faced. He told them during nuclear winter, particulates,
smoke; debris emitted from explosion blocked the sun, causing freezing summer, aftermath
atomic detonation, beyond the tolerant capacity of man to survive.
“No! No more nuclear weapons”, Warns
President Kazumi Matasui of Peace Culture Foundation, Hiroshima.
What it reminds all in this world that –this wonderland of
people has been created once! It only requires a touch, a feel, a hug, kindling
a flame of hope. A resolve to create joy, simple ways to peace and human
abundance!
-Ina
